Patents Examined by Emmanuel K Maglo
  • Patent number: 11362758
    Abstract: A communication method and a communications device are provided. The communication method includes: determining a modulation and coding scheme index; determining first information based on received DCI; determining, based on the first information, modulation and coding scheme information corresponding to the modulation and coding scheme index, wherein the first information comprises a search space in which the DCI is located, and the search space in which the DCI is located is a common search space or a user-specific search space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jiafeng Shao, Yongxia Lyu
  • Patent number: 11357079
    Abstract: A base station and a user equipment with enhanced PDCP duplication are provided. The base station generates at least one RRC message for a user equipment, wherein the at least one RRC message includes a set of multiple activation criteria, and each activation criterion corresponds to one of multiple RLC entities. The base station transmits the at least one RRC message to the user equipment. Multiple logical channels are provided in a MAC layer, each RLC entity corresponds to at least one of the logical channels, each RLC entity corresponds to a working status (activation or deactivation). At least one of the working statuses of the RLC entities is changed due to at least one of the activation criteria being satisfied, and the base station changes a transmission restriction of at least one specific logical channel among the logical channels based on the changed working statuses of the RLC entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Institute For Information Industry
    Inventor: Chiu-Wen Chen
  • Patent number: 11356368
    Abstract: Techniques for ensuring that, in the context of network traffic load-balanced across a plurality of service devices connected to a network device, all of the bi-directional traffic between a given pair of hosts residing in different domains is sent to the same service device, where a “domain” is a group of one or more hosts/subnets that is reachable by a service device via an interface of that device. In one set of embodiments, these techniques can include (1) creating a load balancer group on the network device for each domain defined on the service devices, such that the load balancer group for a given domain D includes all of the service device interfaces mapped to D, (2) enabling symmetric hashing with respect to each load balancer group, and (3) synchronizing the hash tables of the load balancer groups such that a given hash bucket (across all hash tables) maps to an interface of a single service device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Arista Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Anuraag Mittal, Tula Kraiser, Nitin Karkhanis
  • Patent number: 11356379
    Abstract: Apparatus and method relating generally to a channelized communication system is disclosed. In such a method, a read signal and a switch control signal are generated by a controller. Received by channelized buffers are data words from multiple channels associated with groups of information and the read signal. The data words are read out from the channelized buffers responsive to the read signal. A switch receives the data words from the channelized buffers responsive to the read signal. A gap is inserted between the groups of information by the switch. One or more control words are selectively inserted in the gap by the switch responsive to the switch control signal. The switch control signal has indexes for selection of the data words and the control words.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: XILINX, INC.
    Inventor: Junjie Yan
  • Patent number: 11343714
    Abstract: A technique for communicating protocol data units, PDUs, in a radio communication from a transmitter (100) to a receiver (200) is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, one or more control messages indicative of Quality of Service, QoS, requirements for the radio communication are received. The QoS requirements include a control command for a reliability of the radio communication and a control command for a latency of the radio communication. A batch of redundant PDUs is transmitted from the transmitter (100) to the receiver (200). A number of the redundant PDUs per batch depends on the control command for the reliability and a temporal spread of the redundant PDUs per batch depends on the control command for the latency.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (Publ)
    Inventors: Ismet Aktas, Junaid Ansari, Mohammad Hossein Jafari
  • Patent number: 11336404
    Abstract: Provided are a data transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: receiving downlink data during a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission; when the received downlink data is first feedback, terminating the PUSCH transmission; and when the received downlink data is second feedback, terminating the PUSCH transmission and executing a first operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Inventors: Xianming Chen, Bo Dai, Kun Liu, Weiwei Yang, Huiying Fang
  • Patent number: 11317450
    Abstract: The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for wireless communication and a network device, which may determine an access domain for called terminal device when the called terminal device is dual registered terminal device, thereby ensuring establishment of a call. In the method, a first terminal device has registered with both a first network and a second network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGDONG OPPO MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS CORP., LTD.
    Inventor: Hai Tang
  • Patent number: 11296915
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a reference signal transmission method and user equipment. The method includes: determining, by a first user equipment, a first identifier related to the first user equipment; determining, by the first user equipment, a first cyclic shift indication from to-be-selected cyclic shift indications according to the first identifier; determining, by the first user equipment, first reference signal according to the first cyclic shift indication and a preset base sequence; and sending, by the first user equipment, the first reference signal to second user equipment, thereby implementing reference signal transmission in D2D communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Huawei Device Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Jian Wang
  • Patent number: 11223494
    Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention provide novel methods for providing transparent services for multicast data messages traversing a network edge device operating at a boundary between two networks. The method analyzes data messages received at the network edge device to determine whether they require a service provided at the boundary and whether they are unicast or multicast (including broadcast). The method modifies a multicast destination media access control (MAC) address of a multicast data message requiring a service to be a unicast destination MAC address and provides, without processing by a standard routing function, the modified data message directly to an interface associated with a service node that provides the particular service required by the data message. The method receives the serviced data message, restores the multicast destination MAC address, and forwards the serviced data message to a set of destinations associated with the multicast destination address.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 11, 2022
    Assignee: VMWARE, INC.
    Inventors: Rahul Mishra, Pierluigi Rolando, Stephen Tan, Raju Koganty
  • Patent number: 11196622
    Abstract: A method of initializing, provisioning, and managing a cable modem and a customer premise equipment device includes sending a customized configuration file to the cable modem. The configuration file contains service provisioning information and further includes information indicative of a network address type for the customer premise equipment device. A message is passed from the cable modem to the customer premise equipment device indicative of the network address type. The customer premise equipment device is provided with a network address in accordance with the network address type indicated in the message. In this way, the customer premise equipment device knows what kind of address to obtain, and excessive transactions are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Comcast Cable Communications, LLC
    Inventors: Pak Siripunkaw, John Jason Brzozowski, Srinivas Avirneni, Emery J. Weber
  • Patent number: 11196814
    Abstract: A controller in a building management system (BMS) includes an integrated wireless network processor chip. The integrated wireless network processor chip includes a wireless radio, a processor, and memory. The wireless radio is configured to exchange data communications with one or more BMS devices controlled by the controller. Both the processor and memory are in communication with the wireless radio and located on the same chip as the wireless radio. The memory includes communication stacks configured to facilitate communications using a building automation and control network communications protocol and a Wi-Fi communications protocol. The integrated wireless network processor chip receives data from the BMS devices via the wireless radio, formats the data using the processor, stores the data in the memory, and sends the data via the wireless radio without requiring any additional processing or communications components outside the integrated wireless network processor chip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Christopher Brophy, Kim K. Weller, Daniel R. Gottschalk, Ryan J. Bykowski, Tom Z. Zhuang
  • Patent number: 11196617
    Abstract: An electronic device may establish a beam pair link, using a first Tx beam included in a plurality of Tx beams having different directions transmitted from a base station, and a first Rx beam included in a plurality of Rx beams, may receive information associated with the plurality of Tx beams, using the beam pair link, may receive a plurality of first signal blocks, using the beam pair link, may perform first decoding of the first signal blocks, may determine beam failure for the first Tx beam based at least partly on the result of the first decoding, may identify measurement information about the plurality of Tx beams, and may determine RLF associated with the base station based on the measurement information and information associated with the Tx beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sungjin Park, Hyoungjoo Lee, Taeyoon Kim, Chaiman Lim
  • Patent number: 11190606
    Abstract: A switching device is enabled to automatically perform one or more actions based on one or more notifications received thereby. A notification may be received by a device communicatively coupled to the switching device, or alternatively, may be internally-generated. Upon receiving the notification, the switching device utilizes a notification-to-action mapping to determine which action(s) are to be performed based on the notification received. The action(s) include automatically switching the switching device to a device coupled to a port thereof and/or automatically launching an application executing on that device in order to view the notification and/or content associated with the notification. In other example, the action(s) may include sending the notification to another device, such as a user's mobile phone and/or causing an application executing on the mobile phone to be launched in order to view the notification and/or content associated with the notification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Caavo Inc
    Inventors: Andrew E. Einaudi, Ashish D. Aggarwal
  • Patent number: 11190996
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes reselecting another equivalent public land mobile network (PLMN) in an inactive state, transmitting, to a base station, a radio resource control (RRC) resume request message including a resume cause configured to mobile originated (mo)-signaling in case that a radio access network (RAN)-based notification area update procedure is triggered, and receiving, from the base station, an RRC resume message.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Sangyeob Jung, Anil Agiwal, Jaehyuk Jang, Alexander Sayenko, Soenghun Kim
  • Patent number: 11184927
    Abstract: This disclosure describes methods, apparatus, and systems related to non-contiguous channel bonding. A device may determine a wireless communication channel having one or more subchannels in accordance with one or more communication standards. The device may determine instructions to perform one or more clear channel assessments (CCAs) on at least one of the one or more subchannels. The device may cause to send the instructions to one or more first devices. The device may identify a frame received from at least one of the one or more first devices, wherein the frame is received on at least one available subchannel of the one or more subchannels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Qinghua Li, Xiaogang Chen, Po-Kai Huang, Yuan Zhu, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 11184815
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method of setting a handover parameter includes receiving, from a serving evolved NodeB (eNB), cell type information indicating eNB types of the serving eNB and eNBs adjacent to the serving eNB, and mobility information of the UE, detecting types of the serving eNB and a target eNB based on the cell type information, and setting a Time-To-Trigger (TTT) applied, the mobility information of the UE, and a received signal strength for the serving eNB.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jung-Soo Jung, Jung-Min Moon, Jong-Hyung Kwun, Sun-Heui Ryoo, Sung-Jin Lee
  • Patent number: 11178050
    Abstract: This application discloses a neural network that also functions as a secure packet data network using an MPLS-type label switching technology. The neural network uses its intelligence to build and manage label switched paths (LSPs) to securely transport user packets and solve complex mathematical problems. This architecture is well suited to interconnect large numbers of processors or computers into a secure neural network exhibiting advanced intelligence which can be used for complex activities such as managing the power grid. However, the methods taught here can be applied to other data networks including ad-hoc, mobile, Information Centric, Content Centric, Sensor, and traditional IP packet networks, cell or frame-switched networks, time-slot networks and the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2021
    Inventors: Samuel Frederick Wood, Samuel Bennett Wood
  • Patent number: 11172512
    Abstract: A communication device receives a trigger frame that is configured to: trigger a contention-based uplink orthogonal frequency multiple access (OFDMA) transmission by multiple communication devices, and indicate a predetermined length of the contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission, wherein the predetermined length corresponds to contention-based uplink OFDMA transmissions. Responsive to receiving the trigger frame, the communication device generates a data unit having the predetermined length, and responsive to receiving the trigger frame, transmits the data unit as part of a contention-based uplink OFDMA transmission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: NXP USA, INC.
    Inventors: Yakun Sun, Hongyuan Zhang
  • Patent number: 11172543
    Abstract: A communication device for handling a plurality of PDSCHs in a plurality of BWPs comprises at least one storage device and at least one processing circuit coupled to the at least one storage device. The at least one storage device stores, and the at least one processing circuit is configured to execute instructions of: determining a quasi-colocation (QCL) assumption according to an indication; and receiving at least one PDSCH of a plurality of PDSCHs in a plurality of BWPs in a time interval according to the QCL assumption from a network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Wei-Chen Pao, Chien-Min Lee
  • Patent number: 11166238
    Abstract: In an aspect, a UE may determine a set of parameters associated with each of a plurality of different operation modes supported by the UE and transmit UE capability information including the set of parameters to a base station, where at least one operation mode comprises a power efficient mode. The UE may receive configuration information based on the UE capability information including an indication of an operation mode of the plurality of different operation modes. A base station may receive UE capability information including a set of parameters associated with each of a plurality of different operation modes supported by a UE and determine an operation mode of the plurality of different operation modes for the UE based on the UE capability information. The base station may transmit configuration information including an indication of the operation mode of the plurality of different operation modes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: QUALCOMM Incorporated
    Inventors: Jing Jiang, Peter Pui Lok Ang, Ashok Mantravadi, Aamod Khandekar, Krishna Kiran Mukkavilli, Joseph Binamira Soriaga, Naga Bhushan, Yuanning Yu